trucker
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Just as the state’s more than 25 million registered drivers are experiencing pain at the pump, the rising cost of diesel fuel is hitting Southern California’s large logistics industry, including truckers reliant on diesel fuel.
From Los Angeles Times
The trucker catalogs diesel prices each time she fuels up for the roughly 500-mile round trip she makes six nights a week hauling modular dorm rooms from outside Los Angeles to California Polytechnic State University.
High diesel prices would be felt by consumers quickly: Grocery stores and other retailers pay truckers’ fuel surcharges and pass those costs on to consumers.
A sustained increase would ding truckers that rely on the fuel to transport goods, as well as homeowners that burn heating oil to warm their houses.
Over the past year, more than 10,700 truckers failed an English test disqualifying them from driving.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
